ABOUT ME & MY CREATIVE JOURNEY

Hi! I’m Jessica. I am an artist, writer, and mystic. I was born and raised in New Jersey as a bilingual and first generation Portuguese-American. I moved to Colorado in 2021 with my husband and two cats, Odin and Mars. I started my business, Jupiter Soul, in 2016, as a way to create and share what was most meaningful to me.

I am a lifelong artist and writer. I have been writing since I was a child, and creating art for as long as I can remember. I have experimented with every medium I could get my hands on, such as  drawing, lettering, printmaking, jewelry making, photography, design, collage, sewing, and I am former professional woodworker. Writing is a personal hobby which has included writing essays, stories, poetry, screenwriting, and keeping a journal.

After I dropped out of art school, I was creatively drained and burned out for years. A few years later, I had my car broken into and had my art supplies and sketchbooks stolen, leaving me with an inexplicable mixture of emotions of something I had taken for granted. The grief that I felt over the loss of my artwork was a wake up call to build a new relationship with my artistry to compensate for what I lost.

Influenced by the support of my friends at the time, I began exploring new artistic mediums with their company. The idea of Jupiter Soul was born shortly after in June 2016. It is my ongoing passion project in my exploration and integration of the arts, writing, philosophy, and mysticism. Embodying Jupiter, the planet of expansion, Jupiter Soul began as a project to expand my creativity, knowledge, and to connect with others while doing it. 

I was most active from 2016 to 2021. In 2019, I began selling my art in my local community. In 2020, I launched my mystical offerings online (learn more here). In 2021, I moved across the US. I started to feel creatively burned out again. In 2022, history repeated itself, and everything has been different since then. I had my storage unit broken into and my Jupiter Soul merchandise and supplies stolen, yet again. This time I felt even more lost, confused, and grief about my creativity, as I tried to make sense of getting my artwork stolen a second time. I focused more on writing, but eventually my art and business went on hiatus.

Until 2025, when my life changed even more and one of my worst fears came true. I broke my finger on my dominant hand, and for the first time in my life, did not have the ability to do the things I loved the most. After months of healing, recovery, and therapy, as soon as I was able to use my hand again, I began to create again. And without the influence and support of my friends, I would not be where I am now.

Since then, I have taken a gentle and healing approach to my creative practice like I did with my broken finger. Lately you can find me having craft nights with friends, collaging, sewing, and cooking with them and my husband. After years of being inactive, now in 2026, I am trying to develop a healthy creative practice that is not for profit, not for performance, not because I’m required, but for my own personal pleasure and healing.

Art and expression are the most important aspect of my life, even if I may not always understand it. For as long as I am alive, I am here to bring beauty to this world. Beauty is not a want, it is a need, and the world is not the same without it. My creative journey has been a long one, and it is far from being over.

What does Jupiter Soul mean?

Jupiter:

  • urge toward a larger order or to connect self with something greater than self

  • expansion, growth, and abundance

  • planet of broader purpose, reach, and possibility

  • seeks insight through knowledge

  • morality, gratitude, hope, honor, and law

  • optimism, generosity, joy, and benevolence

  • an attempt at being a star, 80x smaller than the Sun

Soul:

  • emotional or intellectual energy or intensity, especially as revealed in a work of art or an artistic performance

  • the spiritual part of a person that is believed to give life to the body and in many religions is believed to live forever

 

 

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If you are interested in more, check out my portfolio, mystical offerings, and browse my art for sale. Stay connected with the links above. Please contact me at JessicaMaiaArt@gmail.com if you have any inquiries.